crashed my bike! (Read 1284 times)

so even though I ran today, I decided to take my bike out, just for a leisurely ride. I have not taken it out in over a year (tsk!) anyways, I walked it .25 miles to the gas station to fill the tires, and then biked 3 miles to the park...then biked 12 miles around the park, then as I was leaving, crashed! My bike is a men's bike, and way too big for me..i was leaving the park and there was a sharp, narrow turn, I knew it would be hard to get around so I went for the brakes and put my legs down to scrap the road to slow down, and boom! right into the guard rail...the bike stayed on the sidewalk and I actually flipped head over heals over the guardrail! Two cars even stopped to make sure I was ok...good thing I had my helmet on lol How embarrassing! Anyways, all I did was scrape up my hands and got a huge, nasty bruise on my left thigh. It could have been worse I suppose, I am just so embarrassed all those people saw! lol

Owie! Running injuries = generally undramatic, develop gradually, frustrating Cycling injuries = frequently very dramatic, very sudden, humiliating Only thing more embarrassing than cycling injuries are those suffered on (er off) inline skates. I had some BAD bruises to show for that about a decade ago. Glad your worst injury was a bruised pride.

Yikes! Sounds scary. It's funny though, no matter how much we physically get injured, the humiliation always hurts worse (for me anyway!). Glad you're ok though!

Having done the Scottish "Coast to Coast" across some serious mountains without falling off I fell off last week in Norfolk ( the flatest county in England ) on a flat concrete road and at first I though I had broken my leg. You never know whats around the corner.

I had an intersection where I clipped out on the wrong foot three rides in a row and ended up toppling over. Humiliating is very accurate.

My favorite was when I asked DH to tighten my pedals just a skoosh. Apparently he thought an extra turn was a good idea. I came to a complete stop and still could not get either foot out of my pedals...so there I was hovering and saying "oh shit oh shit oh shit" as I did a slow-mo fall to the street on my hip. Really wasn't hurt, just embarrassed and annoyed with the hubby.

If God wanted us to ride bikes, he would have given us wheels for riding instead of feet for running...........Bikes scare me........ Ill stick to running cause every time I get on a bike something bad happend to me.......